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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 canonization
 追封為聖者,承認為聖典

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Can·on·i·za·tion n.
 1. R. C. Ch. The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
    Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century.   --Hoock.
 2. The state of being canonized or sainted.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 canonization
      n : (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of
          admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
          [syn: canonisation]